by Professor Ian Shaw In my blog back in May I predicted that 7 day working for GPs would not happen and outlined the reasons why. The Government have since come up with its `New Deal’ for GPs who agree to 7 day working in which they offer some incentive payments for GPs who agree to …

By Jodie Pennacchia and Rupal Patel I am sitting in an assembly. A female external speaker has come in to discuss post-16 options. In order to ‘sell’ certain options she highlights the money students will get, for example for doing an apprenticeship. She addresses the girls in particular; “imagine how many Primark outfits you …

Professor Ian Shaw Back in March I blogged about how the Five Year Forward View (FYFW) introduced by NHS Chief Exec Simon Stevens was effectively `Reforming the 2012 NHS Reforms’ . This blueprint for the future of the NHS, to be delivered within one parliament, was signed up to by the Conservative Party and …

by Ian Shaw Cameron’s announcement of 7 day working 8am-8pm for the GPs by 2020 so soon after the Election may have been his way of reassuring the public that the NHS was safe in his hands, but it’s not really going to happen this parliament and there are a number of reasons for that: …

by Simon Roberts and Bruce Stafford Much was hung by Cameron on the ‘Big Society’. His notion of which involved citizens and service providers cooperating to co-produce, and in some cases citizens to provide their own, public services. Co-production, an idea that dates back to the 1970s, was presented by the in-coming Coalition government as …

By Rupal Patel This week saw the announcement of investing £1.25bn in mental health services by Chancellor George Osborne. Many will be pleased with the announcement but I am somewhat sceptical. Is more money the answer to our growing epidemic nature of mental health problems? Or is this simply a political ploy prior to the …

Today is our first outing onto the web as a group. We are a collection of social scientists in various guises: lecturers, professors, PhD students, research fellows of all ages and from across the globe. We are based in the International Centre for Public and Social Policy (IcPSP) in the School of Sociology and Social …

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